The health reform law will expand Medicaid coverage to 16 million Americans, beginning in 2014. This video explains who will be newly eligible for Medicaid, and how the expense for these new Medicaid recipients will be divided between the federal government and state governments. Featuring Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation.

This video is part of a series produced by the non-partisan Alliance for Health Reform in Washington, DC (allhealth.org). Our aim is to explain simply and in concrete terms the major provisions of the health reform law (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010). The series is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. To suggest questions that you would like to have answered in this series, please send an email to BillErwin@allhealth.org